The Francis Haynes Lindley Memorial Collection was
donated to Honnold Library by Walter Lindley and F. Haynes Lindley, Jr. in memory
of their father, Francis Haynes Lindley. The 3,000 volume donation covers a wide
range of subjects including history, literature, poetry, drama, and travel. It is
particularly strong in Shakespeare, Milton, and dramatists such as Sheridan. There
is also a major concentration on works by and about Samuel Johnson and Sir Richard
Burton. The collection also contains thirty-one
scrapbooks
documenting turn-of-the-century Los Angeles society, including an extensive body of
theatrical memorabilia, as well as contemporary medicinal recipes, and an account of a
lecture delivered by Ralph Waldo Emerson.